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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak

All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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ILLINOIS N4M

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Who wants to make an Illinois N4M site with me? Calling all Illinois Sailor families.

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Latest Activity: Apr 7, 2021

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Comment by Pentwater98 on November 28, 2011 at 10:52am: ProudNavyMom - You will I know it...

Comment by ProudNavyMom on November 28, 2011 at 10:42am: Pentwater - so glad for you. I hope to get the "I'm a sailor" call sometime tomorrow!

Comment by Pentwater98 on November 28, 2011 at 7:52am: Good Morning my Navy Family.. In 3 days 18 hours I get to see my Sailor I am so excited I can't put it into words... Got to talk to him for a little while yesterday. They are treating them really good right now since they are already Sailors.. Got to go on Facebook, call home, eat Taco Bell (which he wouldn't eat after talking with a friend that works at our local Taco Bell) and play video games. It was funny while we were talking he kept saying hold on I am talking to my mom and dad. Than finally my Sailor said that his friends wanted him to go play games so he was going to hang up.. That made my so happy to hear him call them his friends.. I know they will be friends for live..

Comment by ProudNavyMom on November 27, 2011 at 9:49pm: Lauren - thank you so much for the pic!!

Comment by allie42989 (ship07/div036) on November 27, 2011 at 5:12pm: @earl's mom - my boyfriend is in week 3 at great lakes. pir is 1/06. so far i have gotten three letters and info on adopt a sailor (all in one envelope). hoping for more soon!

Comment by ProudNavyMom on November 27, 2011 at 4:50pm: Pat - my son is going to A school in Pensacola. His job is Aviation Mechanics Mate.

Comment by lauren on November 27, 2011 at 3:29pm: @ allie........it stinks but that is the very best advice I can give you .....I can tell you from experience, don't go by what others tell you, go by what comes out of your sailors mouth, and No News is Good News....Everyone of them is different

Comment by allie42989 (ship07/div036) on November 27, 2011 at 1:17pm: We're going on 4wks at boot camp, so I'm crossing my fingers that today may be the day I get a phone call from my man. If not, I will continue with the motto, "no news is good news". Hope you all have a great day! :)

Comment by Pat L. in IL on November 27, 2011 at 12:15pm: @ProudNavyMom, Is your sailor going to Nuke school in Goose Creek? Because I am a "Nuke Mom", I talked to a lot of them at the VFW. SO hope one was your son!! Many of them said, Oh yes, my mom is on N4M and she knows stuff before I do!!!" We all did a lot of laughing!!!!

Comment by ProudNavyMom on November 27, 2011 at 12:06pm: Earls mom- I was able to get those calls from my SR on Thanksgiving because his division was able to participate in the adopt a sailor program and was taken off base to a VFW hall. Also my SR is able to come home for two weeks at Christmas because the A school will be closed.